Oneshield Disaster Recovery Plan
OneShield lacks a proper disaster recovery (DR) plan. These plans involve a set of policies and procedures that enable the recovery of data, should it ever be destroyed or lost by natural, technical, or human-error-based disasters.
As IT systems have become increasingly critical to companies, the importance of ensuring the continued operation of those systems, and their rapid recovery, has increased. This is especially true for OneShield, who provides technology services for insurance companies. , There is a need to protect the data from loss.
We know from OneShield that these type of occurrences can and do happen, simply by looking at the company’s SANpocalypse incident we introduced before. Since OneShield doesn’t have a disaster recovery …show more content…
OneShield has many offices. They can build the backup sites in different buildings and different offices in case that one office is destroyed by unexpected issues. For example, when the SANpocalypse incident happened, we could use the backup site in another building to retrieve lost data. It is rare to get both two buildings damaged at the same …show more content…
Backups of data are transferred to the cold site regularly, but infrequently. In the event that the primary site fails, the secondary site can be brought online, however, changes made since the last backup may be lost. Additionally, it will take some time to bring all services back online at the cold site. The benefit of a cold site is usually its relative cost.
A warm site is a blend between the other two options (hot and cold sites). In a warm site, data is replicated frequently, but not in real time. For example, data may be replicated once every 30 minutes. Additionally, the data is kept in an offline state. This means that in the event of a failure at the primary site, data would be lost since the last replication (in this case, 30 minutes of data). The secondary site would then need to power up the virtual machines, however, the VM hosts should remain in a powered-on state to allow for the data
As IT systems have become increasingly critical to companies, the importance of ensuring the continued operation of those systems, and their rapid recovery, has increased. This is especially true for OneShield, who provides technology services for insurance companies. , There is a need to protect the data from loss.
We know from OneShield that these type of occurrences can and do happen, simply by looking at the company’s SANpocalypse incident we introduced before. Since OneShield doesn’t have a disaster recovery …show more content…
OneShield has many offices. They can build the backup sites in different buildings and different offices in case that one office is destroyed by unexpected issues. For example, when the SANpocalypse incident happened, we could use the backup site in another building to retrieve lost data. It is rare to get both two buildings damaged at the same …show more content…
Backups of data are transferred to the cold site regularly, but infrequently. In the event that the primary site fails, the secondary site can be brought online, however, changes made since the last backup may be lost. Additionally, it will take some time to bring all services back online at the cold site. The benefit of a cold site is usually its relative cost.
A warm site is a blend between the other two options (hot and cold sites). In a warm site, data is replicated frequently, but not in real time. For example, data may be replicated once every 30 minutes. Additionally, the data is kept in an offline state. This means that in the event of a failure at the primary site, data would be lost since the last replication (in this case, 30 minutes of data). The secondary site would then need to power up the virtual machines, however, the VM hosts should remain in a powered-on state to allow for the data